Improvement in ventilators for hats



-To all whom it may concern I datiert gaat@ SAMUEL BEATTY, NORWALK. CONNECTICUT.

'Leners Patent N 103,703, @zaal May 31, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN VENTILATORS FOR HATS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same. 1

Be it known that I, SAMEL BEATTY, of Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain Improvements in Hat-Ventilators, of which the'following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to providing hats with ventilators, and A The invention consists in constructing the ventilator ot' a flattened, perforated, corrugated wire, as hereinafter explained.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of a hat, with the ventilator applied.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a strip of the wire in its various stages of being prepared for a hat-ventilator.

Figure 3 is an -e'dge view of the wire, attached to a leather or sweat-band, the wire being represented enlarged.

The generalvidea of this ventilator is similar to that described in the patent heretofore issued to J. P. Be-

atty, under date ot"March 23, 1869.

customary in covering hoop-skirt wire, and as repre-` i sented by the portion marked d of ti`g.2. After-:being thus prepared, it is ready for use.

In forming a ventilator for hat-s it is then corrngated transversely, as represented bythe part-s marked c d of tig. 2, after which it is sewed fast to a sweat, B,

as represented in fig. 3, in which it is shown enlarged,"

in order to represent it more clearly. .lhe sweat, with the corrugated ,wire thus attached, A is then sewed fast in the hat, as represented in iig. 1', and as'described in the patentgranted to J. P. BeatL 7ty, hereinbefore referred to.

By this method of preparing the wire I am enabled to produce a very light and pliable ventilator, and one that can be easily'and cheaply secured in place. `It is also-much lighter, and, by means of the perforatons,it can be sewed to the sweat by stitching through the holes,and, at the-Sametime, more or less perspiration may iud its way-through the perfor-ations, thus tending to keep the head cool.

By bending it so as to cause the bend to occur at the center of the elongated perforatious, the surface coutact with the head is reduced in extent just in proportion to the width ofthe hole. It thus forms a very light, durable, and elastic ventilator.

Having thus described my invention,

A hat-ventilator, consisting of a strip of flattened, perforated, and corrugated wire, .constructed and arranged substantiall y as described.

- v SAMUEL BEATTY.

Witnesses:

C. T. CORNWALL,

EDWD. P. WEED. 

